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A person can have great intentions, but without the intimacy, what’s the difference between a lover and a friend?”
“I waited. Two years after, Stephen Bass bought a gorgeous five-million-dollar house on Long Island right after he got engaged. And I paid a significant amount of money to a friend to drop off a few little packages for me.” I tilted my head. “Packages?” “Do you know what a milk-chicken bomb is?” I laughed. “No! But it sounds dreadful!” “It is. You take a glass jar and you stuff it with raw chicken and milk that’s already started to go bad. You fill that jar to the brim and you seal it. Then you stick it in the air ducts and you wait. Over time, after repeated exposure to heat and pressure, the
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“We’d get old together like Bud and Bertie. I’d hold your hand all the way up until the end and love you every day of our lives just the way I do now.”
“Woman, you’re high as the nuts on a giraffe, you know that?”
“that was it. The feel of his voice against me, his arms around me, his smell even. I didn’t just want him for fun anymore. I wanted all of him… for good. I wanted that moment over and over.”
And once I knew him… how could I not love him?”
“You see, time will go on and you’ll forget the little details… the flowers and the food and the music… the patterns on your wedding dress… you’ll forget the words you said to the people around you… but you’ll never forget him. You’ll remember every little detail about him on that day… his clothing… his smell… the words he says… The kiss. You’ll never forget the day you become his forever. Cherish it and be the wife he always needs to come home to.
